To completely erase individual FILES and FOLDERS, rather than an entire HD:Ĭan securely delete any sensitive data by overwriting it with NULL (zeros) before deleting. In this case, to safely format or wipe your C (Windows) partition, just use the freeware Live CD MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. So if you want to use this tool to format your C (Windows) partition, you will need to use a live CD or DVD with a WinPE or LiveXP or Live7 on it.
Please note that, as far as I'm concerned, you can NOT use it to format (and wipe) your disk if you run it from the same disk, as it needs to run while the disk is not in use by your OS.
Low Level Formatting also hides the bad sectors in order to create a clean and error-free surface for your data. This FREE GEM is a must have tool to use in case you experience constant data corruption, virus intrusion within the MBR or bad sectors in your HDs, since it re-initializes the hard drive to its original FACTORY CONFIGURATION by writing a zero byte to its each and every location on the disk: this way it can fully and irreversibly erase all data (if present) from your disk. There is a FREE tool called "HDD Low Level Format Tool", which can quickly wipe out both partitions and even MBR data with ease, exactly as this GAOTD. So overall I found this GAOTD a very handy tool, very suitable especially for people out there who are eager to sell their PC to somebody else and at the same time want to make sure that nobody may ever recover any personal and sensitive data of theirs stored inside the HD of their machine.
It can completely erase both the unallocated/free space and system/boot partition, even on virtual hard drive in VMware, Virtual Box and Virtual PC. So what this GAOTD does is to permanently wipe out any partitions from your PC, making them wholly unrecoverable even by using any professional data recovery software out there. Not many people out there know that formatting an HD is NOT the most secure way to remove files and folders from theilr computer, since this process may often leave behind a lot of traces.
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